Athlete Development Programs.For sports organizations.
For teams, leagues, conferences, players associations and athletic departments.
Audiences and clients have included
Athlete Development
Athletes are navigating deals, advisors, and equity earlier than any generation before them.
Most athlete development is financial literacy: budgeting basics and cautionary tales. Literacy is a floor. The service model around athletes still treats them as clients, with agents, advisers and marketers each working their own piece in their own silo. Yet the decisions athletes actually face are executive ones: which deal fits, how the people around them are paid, and what they're building beyond the playing career.
These sessions treat athletes as the leaders of their own enterprise, the people who set the vision and run the team.
Delivered at NFL BizWeek
Building Your Athlete Enterprise
You are not the client. You're the enterprise. Athletes set a vision for what they're building, with brand, business, philanthropy and investments pointed the same way. Then they audit where they stand against it across five areas: alignment, growth, excellence, network and financial targets. That includes the team around them, and whether each adviser is working toward the athlete's vision or their own piece of it.
Athletes leave with a written vision for their enterprise and their biggest gap named.
Delivered for the Washington Wizards
Is This a Good Deal… For Me?
Athlete investing doesn't have a deal problem. It has an alignment problem. A good deal and a good deal for you are different things. This program is a framework for judging a private opportunity on fit, not just upside: how a deal fits a short and volatile earning window, liquidity risk against opportunity risk, thinking in capital layers, and a scorecard for pressure-testing an offer before saying yes.
Athletes leave with a process they can run on the next deal put in front of them.
Education only. Never investment advice, and no deals, funds or products are presented in the room.
Built in the classroom as well as the locker room
Columbia Business School
Developed the executive education program Venture Investing for Professional Athletes.
University of New Orleans
Adjunct professor, Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
John Templeton Foundation
Co-led a three-year study at UNO testing whether financial education works, piloted through business creation.
That research is why these sessions start with decisions, not definitions.
How they're delivered.
Session Format.
Two separate program tracks, never combined in one session. Each is its own workshop, and each has the depth to extend into a longer education program for organizations that want to go further.
Who is in the room.
For rookies, veterans, college athletes or mixed rooms; staff are welcome.
Tailored and measured.
A pre-session intake so the content fits your group, recording with permission, the same post-session survey every time, and a 30-minute debrief with your staff. You get a read on where your athletes actually are, not just an event.
Next step
$7,500 per workshop. Each program is booked separately.
